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It's interesting that #Kant agrees with #Cavendish that reason must be prior and superior to experiment/observation, so that it's naive of Hooke, et al., to think observation could be the fundamental basis of #science, but this very idea leads Kant to portray the scientist as superior to nature like (in Bxiii–Bxiv) an inquisitor demanding answers of a witness. Nothing could be more foreign to Cavendish's thought than that!